First up was a full floor show of an artist by the name of Wade Guyton OS.
Like many artists Mr. Guyton, who is 40, is both a radical and a traditionalist who breaks the mold but pieces it back together in a different configuration. He is best known for austere, glamorous paintings that have about them a quiet poetry even though devised using a computer, scanner and printer. The show is titled “Wade Guyton: OS,” referring to computer operating systems.
Uninterested in drawing by hand, much less in wielding a paintbrush, he describes himself as someone who makes paintings but does not consider himself a painter. His vocabulary of dots, stripes, bands and blocks, as well as much enlarged X’s and U’s and occasional scanned images, combines the abstract motifs of generic Modernism and the recycling strategies of Andy Warhol and Pictures Generation artists like Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine."
At the other end of the age spectrum an 89 year old artist by the name of Richard Artshwager has an exhibit that is tremendously diverse featuring the mediums of sculpture, painting and drawing.
From The New Yorker:
"The artist, who remains active at the age of eighty-eight, has lost nothing in the way of talent, skill, or ambition since the nineteen-sixties, when he amazed the New York art world with superbly crafted paintings and sculptures in eccentric mediums: plywood, rubberized horsehair, and, especially, Formica, which he called “the great ugly material, the horror of the age.”The work blended the essences of the big movements of the sixties—Pop art, minimalism, and conceptualism—with a sweet frisson of outsiderness, reflecting the late-blooming Artschwager’s jump into art from his first career, as a furniture-maker. "
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/richard-artschwager-whitney-museum-of-american-art-art#ixzz2ENYSXWzc
"The artist, who remains active at the age of eighty-eight, has lost nothing in the way of talent, skill, or ambition since the nineteen-sixties, when he amazed the New York art world with superbly crafted paintings and sculptures in eccentric mediums: plywood, rubberized horsehair, and, especially, Formica, which he called “the great ugly material, the horror of the age.”The work blended the essences of the big movements of the sixties—Pop art, minimalism, and conceptualism—with a sweet frisson of outsiderness, reflecting the late-blooming Artschwager’s jump into art from his first career, as a furniture-maker. "
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/richard-artschwager-whitney-museum-of-american-art-art#ixzz2ENYSXWzc
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